# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 115
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2281 "2025-12-01T14:20:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Another House Republican has seen the writing on the wall and is heading for the door. I’m confused. Why is this far right congressman from a far right district full of far right people resigning? What is the “writing on the wall” in this case? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2282 "2025-12-01T14:38:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > What is the “writing on the wall” in this case? Doesn’t want to be part of the collapse of the USA? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2283 "2025-12-01T15:00:26Z")
Or isn’t willing to be a member of the [fingers, toes & eyes crossed] GQP minority in the next Congress. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2284 "2025-12-01T15:07:30Z")
Or to be hereafter having to constantly guess what otherwise perfectly Republican or even just everyday normal statement or vote may provoke realistic threats of violence against self and family because he failed to predict how the psycho wing of the cult would take it. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2285 "2025-12-01T15:13:38Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Or isn’t willing to be a member of the [fingers, toes & eyes crossed] GQP minority in the next Congress. Or isn’t willing to be a member of the minority with a House Ethics Committee investigation hanging over his head that his buddies can’t quash. [https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/09/rep-troy-nehls-who-built-a-career-on-law-and-order-is-in-violation-of-financial-disclosure-requirements/](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/09/rep-troy-nehls-who-built-a-career-on-law-and-order-is-in-violation-of-financial-disclosure-requirements/) ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2286 "2025-12-01T16:24:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Why is this far right congressman from a far right district full of far right people resigning? What is the “writing on the wall” in this case? As above, he’s very corrupt. He’s done this at every level of his career thus far, quitting his current job (as a local cop, as county Sheriff, and now as a member of Congress) whenever the axe is about to fall and failing up each time. Not sure he’s got anywhere to fail up this time but considering how much dirty money he’s likely made thus far, he may not need to. On the plus side, the district is not a far right one - it’s been gerrymandered to dilute the portion of voters who did not elect his brother this last go around and went to Hillary Clinton back in 2016. Still an uphill climb but it provides an opening ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2287 "2025-12-01T18:37:38Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Wonder when he plans to take this from “donation” to “buying kidneys” to “compulsory donation”? Wait, I think I’ve read this story… > **[Sci-Fi September: ‘Caught in the Organ Draft’ by Robert Silverberg (Short Story)](https://superkickwrites.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/sci-fi-september-caught-in-the-organ-draft-by-robert-silverberg-short-story/)** > > ‘Caught in the Organ Draft’ by Robert Silverberg (1972) Collected in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories, edited by John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, 2011-12, 2nd edition, approx. 10 pgs (p. 37… ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2288 "2025-12-01T19:02:55Z")
Did I miss it? Is there a link to the full story? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2289 "2025-12-01T19:40:36Z")
Or “The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven: [The Jigsaw Man - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2290 "2025-12-02T00:04:36Z")
Oops, i forgot it. > **[Oklahoma U student files discrimination report after flunking gender essay...](https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/us-news/university-of-oklahoma-student-files-discrimination-report-after-flunking-gender-essay-for-psych-class-with-trans-instructor/)** > > Curth doubled-down and noted that Fulnecky’s points were “at times offensive.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2291 "2025-12-02T00:20:31Z")
Weird as fuck… They keep saying in the article that she objects to “beliefs in multiple genders”. And it quotes her as saying: > “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth,” Fulnecky wrote. So… There’s just one gender? Which Bible says that? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2292 "2025-12-02T01:05:30Z")
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) says that telling servicemembers not to obey illegal orders is a “color revolution”. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m6wt7kaskg2d)** > > Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders." I must admit I wasn’t familiar with that term, so I looked it up, and… > **[Colour revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution)** > > The colour revolutions (also spelt color revolutions) were a series of often non-violent protests and accompanying (attempted or successful) changes of government and society that took place in post-Soviet states (particularly Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the early 21st century. The aim of the colour revolutions was to establish Western-style democracies. They were primarily triggered by election results widely viewed as falsified. The colo So... So what you’re saying, senator, is that Mark Kelly and his associates are acting comparably to citizens of post-Soviet states (like, say, Ukraine) that overthrew their autocracies in favor of western liberal democracy… and that this is a BAD thing? ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2293 "2025-12-02T01:09:36Z")
Considering how much they love Putin, yes that’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2294 "2025-12-02T09:34:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > So what you’re saying, senator, is that Mark Kelly and his associates are acting comparably to citizens of post-Soviet states (like, say, Ukraine) that overthrew their autocracies in favor of western liberal democracy… and that this is a BAD thing? It’s a bad thing if you’re one of the fascists, of course. For decent human beings it’s another matter entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2295 "2025-12-02T10:54:49Z")
It’s not stupid at all. She’s trying to take her place at the MAGA Christian grifting money machine. Her mom’s a lawyer who represented a J6 person over wearing a mask. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2296 "2025-12-02T20:38:32Z")
Kristi Noem says Trump keeps hurricanes away. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m6zkg67egx2d)** > > Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that." ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2297 "2025-12-02T20:40:40Z")
He certainly produces a lot of repellent hot air. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2298 "2025-12-02T20:52:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > So… There’s just one gender? Which Bible says that? Well, Trump issued an executive order that states that no human has any gender. The order defines “male” as the gender that produces sperm cells at conception, and “female” as the gender that produces egg cells at conception, but nobody produces any gametes at conception, so nobody is any gender. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2299 "2025-12-02T20:53:44Z")
The Power of the Sharpie. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/2300 "2025-12-03T12:47:58Z")
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